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Introducing East Riding Turfcare

May 25, 2022/in News, Press Release/by Tom Kinroy

Introducing East Riding Turfcare: East Riding Turfcare are a trusted supplier of high quality products including fertilisers, pesticides, biostimulants, wetting agents and seed for the sports turf industry. Providing professional turfcare solutions and products, alongside expert advice from our Area Account Managers nationalwide. East Riding Turfcare is a specialist division of the well established supplier […]

‘Green’ lawncare key for environment

May 25, 2022/in News, Press Release/by Graham Paskett

‘Green’ lawncare key for environment: There are more than 20 million domestic garden lawns in the UK and one man is driving a campaign to ensure that British gardeners get the latest and best possible ‘green’ advice on lawncare. “There is a place for the occasional use of chemicals in lawncare but there is also […]

Introducing East Riding Turfcare

May 25, 2022/in News, Press Release/by Tom Kinroy

‘Green’ lawncare key for environment

May 25, 2022/in News, Press Release/by Graham Paskett

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Introducing East Riding Turfcare

May 25, 2022/in News, Press Release/by Tom Kinroy

Introducing East Riding Turfcare: East Riding Turfcare are a trusted supplier of high quality products including fertilisers, pesticides, biostimulants, wetting agents and seed for the sports turf industry. Providing professional turfcare solutions and products, alongside expert advice from our Area Account Managers nationalwide.

East Riding Turfcare is a specialist division of the well established supplier and wholesaler, East Riding Horticulture, being a family run business based in the beautiful East Riding of Yorkshire Countryside, we live and breathe our products. From our humble beginnings over 30 years ago on our farm, we have evolved and grown into a major sports turf and amenity supplier nationwide.

Introducing East Riding Turfcare

East Riding Turfcare is a thriving, forward thinking business providing quality products for sports turf industry. With multiple on-site warehouses holding an extensive range of stock, spread over 10,000 product lines, we have products ready-to-go, delivered quickly and effective via our own haulage fleet.

We know our customers appreciate good value, high quality and a broad range of products to choose from, combined with our BASIS and industry qualified technical team of experts in the ‘field’, you are guaranteed to receive reliable advice and solutions ensuring you receive the right product at a competitive price. Working with our trusted, solid and reliable supply chain network we can deliver the advice and products you need.

We welcome new customers from all sectors of the sports turf industry and grassroots. Our emphasis is on friendly customer service, knowledgeable technical advice and providing specialist products to the industry, offering professional turfcare solutions across the UK.

Product Areas:
Nutrition
Control
Seed
Wetting Agents
Equipment
Irrigation
Line Marking

Industries Supplied:
Football & Rugby
Golf
Racecourses
Stadia & Sports Fields
Bowls
Tennis
Cricket

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‘Green’ lawncare key for environment

May 25, 2022/in News, Press Release/by Graham Paskett

‘Green’ lawncare key for environment: There are more than 20 million domestic garden lawns in the UK and one man is driving a campaign to ensure that British gardeners get the latest and best possible ‘green’ advice on lawncare.

“There is a place for the occasional use of chemicals in lawncare but there is also a rapidly increasing range of totally green options that are just as effective. I want to ensure that the new breed of specialist lawncare advisors promote this green route,” says Richard Salmon, managing director of ProLawnCareUK.

‘Green’ lawncare key for environment

He has spent his entire career in lawn and grass care and is one of the UK’s foremost experts. Part of his work is training people who want to establish businesses as domestic lawncare advisors and his two and four day courses focus strongly on the environmentally friendly approach. He believes that too many professional lawncare advisors rely on strong chemical treatments and over-feeding grass with manufactured, expensive and not kind to the environment Nitrogen. They do this to ensure a quick-fix and a bright green lawn, deliberately ignoring the more gentle and natural true green alternatives.

“We all want verdant green lawns but trying to force this to happen by applying excessive Nitrogen is neither beneficial to the lawns or environment nor is it sustainable. Steady rain, and even snow, does deliver useful amounts of nitrogen for free. The problem comes from torrential rain that can wash it away again.”

There are three cornerstones of his training courses: ensuring lawns are compaction free, having access to balanced nutrition and some basic lawn management tips that home owners can undertake.

The benefits of a lawn being compaction free are:

Allowing roots to grow deep in search of natural nutrients and water.
Allowing rain to percolate down to the roots and not waterlogging the lawn.
Preventing the grass from suffocating and dying through lack of oxygen.

“A compaction free lawn will have a healthy soil microbial population,” says Richard. “The soil is a larder full of natural nutrients vital to grass and delivers it in a form that the roots can take up. This way there is no need for synthetic fertilisers.”

With this combined treatment package lawn owners should mow little and often. Richard believes that mulching is best as nutrients are retained in the leaf and put pack into the soil. In excessively dry weather irrigate using harvested rainwater. This combination will create a thick sward that keeps weeds and moss at bay.

“Our 20 million domestic lawns, collectively, cover an area larger than any UK National Park. Lawn owners have a responsibility to ensure that their small part of such a large area is treated with the utmost respect and care for the environment. It is important that when lawn owners seek professional help and advice, they are not offered a chemical package that runs counter to this objective. Once trained they will find that being able to promote themselves as environmentally responsible lawncare experts will be a major sales boost,” says Richard.

Courses run throughout the year in Cambridge

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Introducing East Riding Turfcare

‘Green’ lawncare key for environment

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‘Green’ lawncare key for environment: There are more than 20 million domestic garden lawns in the UK and one man is driving a campaign to ensure that British gardeners get the latest and best possible ‘green’ advice on lawncare.

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